Originally Posted by Clanrickard

And should be given when the country is B R O K E. A word you and your buddies have trouble with.

The country is not broke.

We can afford our services. Ireland is borrowing to fund interest debt repayments.

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Originally Posted by SeanieFitz

trouble is that a lot of PS are also B R O K E and will have little to lose, imo, when they reject CPA2!

Do you think CPA2 will be rejected?

We have a system here where retired 'top' civil servants pensions are more than the salary of the people who are now doing the jobs they retired from.

Banana Republic.

Originally Posted by RobertW

The country is not broke.

We can afford our services. Ireland is borrowing to fund interest debt repayments.

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Robert down the syringe and back away slowly.

Originally Posted by Mr. Bumble

I did. Your point?

It was a comparison between public and private.

Originally Posted by Clanrickard

Robert down the syringe and back away slowly.

You didn't even read the link.

Sorry for you that the facts don't conform to your agenda.

Originally Posted by Fr.Ted Crilly

We have a system here where retired 'top' civil servants pensions are more than the salary of the people who are now doing the jobs they retired from.

Banana Republic.

And we have a Government that is unwilling to tackle the issue - probably because they pay their own staff up to €70,000 more than the €92,000 cap "suggested" by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and probably because they don't want a rule change to affect themselves. We just have to live with it.

Originally Posted by RobertW

The country is not broke.

We can afford our services. Ireland is borrowing to fund interest debt repayments.

Would your bank let you do that? For how long?

Also, your link says: "we are now mainly borrowing to pay interest on the burgeoning national debt."

Mainly, not Only.

Originally Posted by RobertW

The country is not broke.

We can afford our services. Ireland is borrowing to fund interest debt repayments.

weve-largely-stopped-borrowing-to-pay-for-services-and-welfare-now-were-borrowing-to-repay-interest-on-deb

We're borrowing because we are spending more than we are taking in.

Originally Posted by RobertW

Do you think CPA2 will be rejected?

The current negotiations are not for Croke Park 2 - they are for a facelifted Croke Park 1.